Westmore, McKenzie

It’s only fitting that McKenzie Westmore, the daughter of modern Star Trek TV’s makeup guru Michael Westmore and a member of the Westmore makeup clan, has been making waves in her own right as the host of Faceoff, SyFy’s makeup talent huntand contest.Though not a makeup artist herself, her affinity for the field has had a lot to do with making the series the cable network’s highest-rated show of 2011, winning it a second season.

The hit show brings a whole new group to her fanbase that initially swelled during her nine seasons playing Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald on the entire run of the onetime NBC daytime drama, Passions. She also appeared on the soap All My Children from 2008-09 as Dr. Riley Sinclair.

Westmore appeared twice in Star Trek: most notably as Ensign Jenkins on the overnight bridge shift with Ensign Kim in Voyager’s “Warhead” in Season 5—and then as a drafted “extra” when much younger,playing the uncredited role of Rose, one of the kidnapped Enterprise crew children in TNG’s “When the Bough Breaks.” She also had an uncredited cameoas a Ba’ku woman in the big-screen Insurrection.